A waste of an hour.
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>>> A waste of an hour. <<<
I'm glad you said that - I did put it on in the office/study (dining room) but I sort of lost the will to live and ended up putting some Deep Purple on the Hi Fly.
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I'm glad you said that - I did put it on in the office/study (dining room) but I sort of lost the will to live and ended up putting some Deep Purple on the Hi Fly.
Highway Star no doubt.......
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>>> Highway Star no doubt....... <<<<
No friend, it was some very early stuff few folk have have ever heard ~
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-EJ9dQ5BmA
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What did you think of the actual program not to mention the cars?
I'd never heard of Tristram Hunt before, but he seemed to me to be someone who liked the sound of his own voice a bit too much for my liking. There was lots and lots of talk and opinion, but not enough detail.
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I recorded it...well worth deleting then ?
Ted
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A fair presentation of how the UK was opened up by the car, then redeveloped to suit the car, and a good reason why people get misty eyed about the 1950s.
HJ
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Bland. I didn't get the impression he's interested in motoring at all. Just a professional broadcaster who wanted to get himself in front of a camera. Everything he said could've been put together by someone with a vague general knowledge of Britain over the last 100 years
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I started to watchfor about 5 minurtes then........
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......
and the next time I opened my eyes SWMBO was complaining that it was the most boring programme she had seen im ages and had switched over to something else.
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Took me back to when I had a Yellow and white Zodiac just like that but without sun visor - I think mine was older (1958) and my number plate had four numbers followed by two letters.
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I rather liked it.
And it confirmed the view that long gone are the days when motoring was "glamorous"/special and that now, too much, it is over regulated and depressing.
I just about remember as a youngster being taken out for Sunday afternoon spins/picnics for the sake and enjoyment of it - and I'm under 50!!
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So did I Richard, some nice clips (though some galring errors as well, the sound of a prop plane taking off to the picture of the Comet taking off I thought was quite good)... Though overall it made its point, if we want the Golden Age of the Freedon of the Road we needed to go back to the 30s, it went downhill from there...
Though like that guy I could remember my Dad driving our Cambridge at 90 down the Southport Preston dual carriageway with 4 kids sat on the back seat!!
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In the 50s I was regularly a passenger in an Aston Martin, a Lancia or some other interesting bit of kit often doing 100 down the Chertsey Road ( near Twickenham rugby ground).
George Abecassis of HWM fame was a friend of my boss so I got regular rides.
There were always Hanworth Astons being "checked over" along the route so it was an interesting time. ;-)))
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A friend of mine worked for AM at Hanworth and one day had a car to deliver to Bob Mitchum.
Hanworth also had the first "100mph lorry" as I recall. One of their delivery vehicles had a nice poky engine fitted to it. Before the 70mph limit came in.
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